Angelina Stephens

Unlocking Your Team’s Superpower: Part Two

Unlocking Your Team’s Superpower: Part Two

The key to unlocking your team’s superpower is showing them what it looks like to take the armor off, share your vulnerabilities, and work together to overcome each other’s blind spots.  Telling your teammates they can be vulnerable and showing them what it looks like are two very different things.  Your actions are more powerful than any words you can share, and your consistency will build the kind of trust that winning teams are made of. 

Unlocking Your Team’s Superpower: Part One

Unlocking Your Team’s Superpower: Part One

We often wear masks and armor to protect the people around us:  our families, our friends, our teammates, and more than anything, the people we are charged to lead.  We think our masks protect the people around us from the things we see as vulnerabilities: fear, anger, disappointment, overwhelm, uncertainty.  If we show them our fear, they will be scared too.  If we show them our uncertainty, they will lose hope.  If we show them our weakness, they will lose trust and faith in our leadership.  This is what we tell ourselves when we put the armor on.